Program BLAM 2022

Onsdag 6 april

09.00 Workshops i AF-Borgens konferensrum

Doktorand- och seniorworkshops (seniorworkshopen börjar 9.30)

12.00 Registrering och lunch

13.15–13.30 Öppnande

13.30 Plenar 1

Maria Jose Ruiz Lopez, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC (extern webplats) – "Conservation and host-parasite interactions"

14.45 Postersession och fika

1. Abraham Ontiveros Cisneros – “Plants as biofactories for the production of insect sex pheromones”

2. Ashish Ashish – “Studying chemical and fungal modifications of cellulose by the use of Raman spectroscopy”

3. Carl-Johan Hörberg – “How 3D Neuronal Cultures Can Improve In-Vitro Brain Models”

4. Dima Massri – “Conserved operons cvn1 and cvn2 are involved in cell polarity in Streptomyces venezuelae”

5. Emma Kärrnäs – “Closely related flies have closely related host plants”

6. Etka Yapar – “Towards a better understanding of the Lepidoptera phylogeny”

7. Jessica Jennerheim – “Circular use of construction materials - cornerstones of environmental risks and their assessment”

8. Meng Li – “Identify insect pollinators based on spectral fringes produced by clear wing"

9. Mingyue Yuan – “Resource limitation in the changing Subarctic”

6. Sofia Blomqvist – “Road verges- suitable replacement habitats or ecological traps for pollinating insects?”

16.15 Muntlig presentation session 1

1. Robin Pranter – “Do neural crest cells cause correlated trait evolution in wall lizards?”

2. Johanna Stedt – “Group hunting in harbour porpoises”

3. Hongkai Zhang – “Estimating the mutation rate in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)”

4. Gróa Valgerður Ingimundardóttir – “‘Dress accordingly!’ - Plants' ability to adjust to changed temperature”

Flash Talk (3 minuter)

5. Susana Garcia Dominguez – “The toxic effects of soot on birds”

6. Sara Winterfeldt – “Soil microbial responses to drying and rewetting”

7. Josefin Winberg – “Bioenergy and biodiversity”

17.15–21.00 Middag följt av mingel och pub

På AF-Borgen direkt efter Muntlig presentation 1

Torsdag 7 april

09.00 Plenar 2

Felipe Cava, Umeå universitet (extern webplats) – "D-amino acids shape the microbial biodiversity".

10.15 Kafferast och fortsättning på postersessionen

11.00 Muntlig presentation session 2

1. Twinkle Biswas – “Characterization of olfactory sensory neurons for fungal-, plant-, and pheromone compounds in T. lineatum”

2. Zachary Nolen – “Genetic diversity in a changing landscape - Responses from a generalist and a specialist species”

3. Huy Cuong Tran – “mTRAN1 and mTRAN2 are plant-specific proteins required for mitochondrial translation initiation”

12.00 Lunch

13.15 Muntlig presentation session 3

1. Yun-Ting Jang – “The relative importance of predation and competition on adaptive radiation cascades”

2. Samantha Mellinger – “Transgenerational expression patterns of MHC-I genes in the great reed warbler”

3. Johan Kjellberg Jensen – “Quality or quantity: a field experiment on the urban food limitation hypothesis”

Flash Talk (3 minuter)

4. Katie Laschanzky – “Macrophages and neutrophils: two homes for nontuberculous mycobacteria”

5. Dániel Tájmel – ““Microbial temperature dependences in soil: feedback to climate change”

6. Qinyang Li – “How to compare fitness between biological levels?”

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Oral presentation session 4

1. Judith Matavacas – “A volcano-like biofilm structure: a consequence of defects in bacterial cooperation?”

2. Kalle Nilsson – “How is evolvability affected by niche shifts?”

3. Isidora Loncarevic – ”Chemical characterization of moss exudates”

4. Pedro Rosero – “Land-use change effects in the short and long term on biological control in agricultural landscapes”

Flash Talks (3 minutes)

5. Mridula Nandakumar – “Do alleles under selection influence host immune response?”

6. Marie Inger Dam – “Biotech production of insect pheromones in yeast cells - for pest control”

7. Sandra Rabow – “Cyanobacterial blooms like it hot - or not”

17.00 Avslutningscermoni

18.00 – 21.00 Middag på Grand Hotel i lund

Under middagen presenteras vinnarna av bästa poster, bästa muntlig presentation och bästa flash talk